The Mayor of Cape Town is the head of the local government of Cape Town, South Africa; currently that government takes the form of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. In the past, the position of Mayor has varied between that of an executive mayor actively governing the city and that of a figurehead mayor with a mostly ceremonial role. The current Mayor is Patricia de Lille.
This is a list of Mayors of Cape Town in South Africa:
Attie Adriaanse (2000) (NNP)Rev William Bantom (1996 - 2000) (NNP)Nomaindia Mfeketo (1998 - 2000) (ANC)Theresa Solomons (1996 - 1998) (ANC)Clifford Sitonga (1999 - 2000) (ANC)Lukas Olivier (1996 - 1999) (NNP)John Oswald "OJ" Jacobs (1996 - 2000) (NNP)Leon Deacon (1996 - 2000) (NNP)Danny De La Cruz (1996 - 2000) (NNP)Desmond Stoffberg (1999 - 2000) (NNP)Heather Maneveld (1997 - 1999) (NNP)Algene Ross (1996 - 1997) (NNP)Rev William Bantom (1995 - 1996) (NP)(Unless otherwise indicated, names are taken from the cumulative list of mayors published in the annual Mayor's Minutes)
Patricia Kreiner (1993 - 1995)Clive Keegan (1993)Frank van der Velde (1991 - 1993)Gordon Oliver (1989 - 1991)Peter Muller (1987 - 1989)Leon Markowitz (1985 - 1987)Sol Kreiner (1983 - 1985)M.J. van Zyl (1981 - 1983)Louis Kreiner (1979 - 1981)Edward Mauerberger (1977 - 1979)John Tyers (1975 - 1977)David Bloomberg (1973 - 1975)Richard Friedlander (1971 - 1973)Jan Dommisse (1969 - 1971)Gerald Ferry (1967 - 1969)Walter Gradner (1965 - 1967)William Peters (1963 - 1965)Alfred Honikman (1961 - 1963)Joyce Newton Thompson (1959 - 1961), first woman MayorColonel John Orville Billingham (1957 - 1959)Pieter Wolmarans (1955 - 1957)Arthur Keen (1953 - 1955)Fritz Sonnenberg (1951 - 1953)Charles Booth (1949 - 1951)Herbert Gearing (1947 - 1949)Abe Bloomberg (1945 - 1947)Ernest Nyman (1943 - 1945)Walter James (1941 - 1943)Wilfred Brinton (1939 - 1941)WC Foster (1937 - 1939)James Low (1935 - 1937)Louis Gradner (1933 - 1935)Henry Stephan (1931 - 1933)Rev Alfred Lewis (1929 - 1931)Andrew Reid (1927 - 1929)William Fish (1925 - 1927)Ryno J. Verster (1922 - 1925)William Gardener (1920 - 1922)William J. Thorne (1918 - 1920)Sir Harry Hands (1915 - 1918) (second term)John Parker (1913 - 1915), first Mayor of "Greater" Cape Town after surrounding municipalities had been incorporated into the cityHarry Hands (1912 - 1913) (first term) Sir Frank Smith (1908 - 1912)William Duncan Baxter (1907 - 1908)Hyman Liberman (1904 - 1907)Sir William Thorne (1901 - 1904)Thomas O'Reilly (1900 - 1901) (second term)Thomas Ball (1898 - 1900)Herman Boalch (1897 - 1898) (died in office)Sir John Woodhead (1896 - 1897) (fourth term)James Attwell (1895 - 1896)George Smart (1894 - 1895)John Woodhead (1893 - 1894) (third term)Johan Mocke (1892 - 1893)David Pieter de Villiers Graaff (1890 - 1892), later Minister of Public Works and Finance David Christiaan de Waal (1889 - 1890)John Woodhead (1888 - 1889( (second term)Thomas O'Reilly (1887 - 1888) (first term)John Woodhead (1886 - 1887) (first term)Thomas James Campbell Inglesby (1885 - 1886), former honorary Colonel of Cape Field ArtilleryPhilip Stigant (1884 - 1885) (third term)Charles Lewis (1883 - 1884) (second term)William Fleming (1881 - 1883)Petrus Kotze (1879 - 1881)Jan Christiaan Hofmeyr (1878 - 1879)John Philip (1877 - 1878)Charles Lewis (1876 - 1877) (first term)P.U. Leibbrandt (1875 - 1876)Philip Stigant (1874 - 1875) (second term)Gillis J. de Korte (1872 - 1874) (third term)Philip Stigant (1871-1872) (first term)Gillis J. de Korte (1866 - 1871) (second term), title changed from "chairman" to "mayor" in 1867D.G. van Breda (1865 - 1866) (second term)Joseph Barry (1863 - 1865)Thomas Watson (1863)W. Herman (1862 - 1863)Gillis J. de Korte (1860 - 1862) (first term)D.G. van Breda (1860) (first term)Hercules Crosse Jarvis (1848 - 1860)J.J.L. Smuts (1844 - 1848)Michiel van Breda (1840 - 1844), first Chairman of the Cape Town Municipality